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3232145669360The Problem with the Goodreads Reading Challengehttps://jakkaps.com/the-problem-with-the-goodreads-reading-challenge/
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:32:00 +0000https://jakkaps.com/?p=309 The Goodreads reading challenge is a great way to challenge yourself to read more. Every year, you choose a number of books you want to read and see if you hit your target. Whether it’s effective or not is hard to say, but it has certainly motivated me. Theory vs Practice In theory, this...

]]>309The Mathematics of Lovehttps://jakkaps.com/the-mathematics-of-love/
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:57:00 +0000https://jakkaps.com/?p=281Listening to The Arthur Brooks Show episode that dealt with Romantic Entrepreneurship, it struck me that the concept had parallels in gambling. If you haven’t listened to it, Brooks makes the case for being riskier in love-affairs. Now, I’m no relationship expert, but I do love bringing maths to every aspect of life, so here we...

]]>281Key takeaways from Zero to One by Peter Thielhttps://jakkaps.com/key-takeaways-from-zero-to-one-by-peter-thiel/
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:49:00 +0000https://jakkaps.com/?p=266Peter Thiel is controversial, to say the least. I must admit I hesitated to pick up Zero to One for that very reason. That might be stupid, but I’ve always kept a distance to controversial figures. I’m glad I didn’t in this case. This was the first book in a long time that has changed...

]]>266Improving the Weekly Reviewhttps://jakkaps.com/improving-the-weekly-review/
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:59:00 +0000https://jakkaps.com/?p=249Ever since I read Getting Things Done, the weekly review has been an important part of my productivity system. At first, all I did was fight entropy and plan the immediate future. That was long ago, when I was but a young boy at (my current age – 2 years). Since then, I’ve made important...

]]>249The Essence of Productivityhttps://jakkaps.com/the-essence-of-productivity/
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:09:00 +0000https://jakkaps.com/?p=221I’ve just finished reading Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Workweek, and although I’m far from the target audience, it offered some insightful ideas on productivity. This article concerns one of those ideas, describing the nature of productivity itself: the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency: Performing a given task using as little as possible of a...

]]>221A Simple Tool for Higher Quality Timehttps://jakkaps.com/a-simple-tool-for-higher-quality-time/
https://jakkaps.com/a-simple-tool-for-higher-quality-time/#respondWed, 12 Dec 2018 14:44:59 +0000https://jakkaps.com/?p=186Maximizing the quality of your time is not only good for productivity, it’s essential to living a happy life. This, most likely, is not news to you. Doing more with less time is a never-ending process we all go through. How to best maximize your time-to-output or time-to-quality-experiences ratio, is a question you should actively explore...

]]>https://jakkaps.com/a-simple-tool-for-higher-quality-time/feed/0186Pomoflow – the Marriage of Pomodoro and Flowhttps://jakkaps.com/pomoflow-the-marriage-of-pomodoro-and-flow/
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:40:21 +0000https://jakkaps.com/?p=171Pomoflow is a pomodoro app for macOS that lives in the menu bar. It’s a super simple program that does two things: Keeps track of the time you have left in your pomdoro, and the time you have left for the designated work session. The ladder timer is what separates Pomoflow from other Pomodoro apps....